Advantages of Rain Alarm 1. Conserve Water There is a lot of water that you can save by using a rain sensor. By automatically turning off your lawn irrigation system every time it rains‚ the conserved water can be used in other essential purposes such as fighting fire. 2. Prevent Disease Damage and Nutrient Loss Over-watering prevent the roots of your plants from reaching deep into –the ground making your plants vulnerable to disease. Over-watering is also one of the major cause of
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Rain Water Harvesting RAIN WATER HARVESTING AND ARTIFICIAL RECHARGE TO GROUND WATER WHAT IS RAIN WATER HARVESTING : The principle of collecting and using precipitation from a catchments surface. An old technology is gaining popularity in a new way. Rain water harvesting is enjoying a renaissance of sorts in the world‚ but it traces its history to biblical times. Extensive rain water harvesting apparatus existed 4000 years ago in the Palestine and Greece. In ancient Rome‚ residences
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Acid Rain: The Southern Company (A) Case Analysis | Production Processes and Costs | | | | | Executive Summary In the year 1992‚ the Southern Company that held the Bowen plant‚ a coal-fired steam electric plant had to decide on the various options available to comply with the amendments in the Clean Air Act‚ effective 1995. The Bowen plant was an unusually large plant with a capacity to serve the residential‚ commercial and industrial demands of 1 million people. The Bowen
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Acid Rain Research Paper What is acid rain? Rain is one of the most dire and essential needs for a thriving ecosystem‚ and to sustain human‚ animal‚ and plant life. The water provided by the water cycle‚ the event causing rain‚ is required to keep all life on Earth alive. Rain‚ although naturally acidic‚ seems to have been increasing at a rapid rate due to many reasons. Some of these many reasons include‚ pollution. Pollution from homes‚ factories‚ power stations‚ cars‚ and many more
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Stratus: "Proud to have the Least Personality" Normally‚ when we think of clouds we picture fluffs that look like cottonballs or well-feed sheep. Stratus clouds are not in that category at all. Stratus clouds (St) are typically classified as Family C‚ aka Low-level clouds with little vertical development. They are flat and featureless‚ with a color ranging from pale shroud white to nicotine gray. They are smooth and formless‚ like ghosts. They are usually the culprits behind a weatherman’s
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Tropical Rain Forest 1. Biome’s place on earth Where is it (geographical distribution)? 1) Central America in the Amazon River basin. 2) Africa - Zaire basin‚ with a small area in West Africa; also eastern Madagascar. 3) Indo-Malaysia - west coast of India‚ Assam‚ Southeast Asia‚ New Guinea and Queensland‚ Australia. What are its abiotic factors? 1) Large amounts of rain during the rainy season‚ dense foliage‚ warm all year round. Also the rocks‚ soil‚ sunlight and temperature. What
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Virtual Meteorology 101 Name _______________________________ Period ______ Weather and climate are the two major abiotic (nonliving) factors responsible for determining the major geographic ecosystems called biomes. Search the web and give a definition of weather: The state of the atmosphere with respect to wind‚ temperature‚ cloudiness‚ moisture‚ pressure‚ etc. Search the web and give a definition of climate: the composite or generally prevailing weather conditions of a region‚ as temperature
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that have regular rainfall‚ the most appropriate alternative is the collection of rainwater‚ called ‘rainwater harvesting’. Falling rain can provide some of the cleanest naturally occurring water that is available anywhere. This is not surprising‚ as it is a result of a natural distillation process that is at risk only from airborne particles and from man-made pollution caused by the smoke and ash of fires and industrial processes‚ particularly those that burn fossil fuels. Most modern
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I will be discussing the aspects of development from a historical perspective of the film and television industry. To help achieve this I will be focusing on musical genre in Hollywood by analysing the following clip shown of ‘Singing in the rain: Good Morning’. This clip shows how the musical conforms by having general conventions of the genre and also shows the development of Hollywood musicals and it’s importance to genre in a particular time period. Considering the major debate over the definition
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RAIN WATER HARVESTING INTRODUCTION 1. Urban centres in India are facing an ironical situation today. On one hand there is the acute water scarcity due to rise in consumption‚ over dependence and over-exploitation of ground water resources. Added to this‚ there is a lack of a coherent and credible water management policy. On the other hand‚ the streets are often flooded during the monsoons‚ giving rise to a situation of ‘water‚ water everywhere‚ and not a drop to drink.’ 2. This shortage
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